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642 | this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | 1 |
556 | but it 's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
59 | it 's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . | 1 |
596 | the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 1 |
730 | suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it 's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . | 1 |
14 | even horror fans will most likely not find what they 're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . | 1 |
681 | ( a ) shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | 1 |
237 | a by-the-numbers effort that wo n't do much to enhance the franchise . | 1 |
376 | to call the other side of heaven `` appalling '' would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be . | 1 |
44 | the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . | 1 |
74 | a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . | 1 |
166 | characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 1 |
61 | schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . | 1 |
258 | `` the time machine '' is a movie that has no interest in itself . | 1 |
802 | this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film . | 1 |
346 | not only unfunny , but downright repellent . | 1 |
585 | one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . | 1 |
370 | partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . | 1 |
161 | not exactly the bees knees | 1 |
631 | burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . | 1 |
650 | too slow , too long and too little happens . | 1 |
395 | another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | 1 |
136 | looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen . | 1 |
173 | determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor did n't quite engage this adult . | 1 |
50 | it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . | 1 |
436 | trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . | 1 |
7 | or doing last year 's taxes with your ex-wife . | 1 |
465 | shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 1 |
95 | this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . | 1 |
147 | the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and did n't reserve enough for his second . | 1 |
298 | serving sara does n't serve up a whole lot of laughs . | 1 |
338 | it 's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . | 1 |
272 | it 's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
199 | at the very least , if you do n't know anything about derrida when you walk into the theater , you wo n't know much more when you leave . | 1 |
791 | it 's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . | 1 |
101 | his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . | 1 |
292 | the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you 're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . | 1 |
113 | this movie is maddening . | 1 |
57 | the cold turkey would 've been a far better title . | 1 |
319 | too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . | 1 |
836 | it 's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . | 1 |
516 | plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 1 |
284 | directed in a paint-by-numbers manner . | 1 |
98 | on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 1 |
559 | if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . | 1 |
581 | it can not be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . | 1 |
568 | it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they 're being streamed over a 28k modem . | 1 |
429 | the film 's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . | 1 |
843 | a wildly inconsistent emotional experience . | 1 |
702 | the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . | 1 |
363 | it 's a grab bag of genres that do n't add up to a whole lot of sense . | 1 |
490 | detox is ultimately a pointless endeavor . | 1 |
756 | something like scrubbing the toilet . | 1 |
312 | i 'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film . | 1 |
786 | the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . | 1 |
572 | the film 's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go . | 1 |
441 | there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . | 1 |
229 | this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . | 1 |
743 | you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they 'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . | 1 |
606 | makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . | 1 |
512 | villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi 's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . | 1 |
45 | it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . | 1 |
805 | irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . | 1 |
335 | with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry 's boss , there is n't a redeeming moment here . | 1 |
555 | ... plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . | 1 |
486 | the script is n't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . | 1 |
79 | this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . | 1 |
81 | green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project . | 1 |
296 | its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . | 1 |
695 | sit through this one , and you wo n't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . | 1 |
736 | american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . | 1 |
144 | while ( hill ) has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . | 1 |
521 | comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . | 1 |
274 | it 's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 1 |
840 | what is 100 % missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . | 1 |
420 | one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . | 1 |
99 | why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? | 1 |
659 | chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . | 1 |
822 | it 's a buggy drag . | 1 |
46 | a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . | 1 |
735 | the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 1 |
765 | not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . | 1 |
148 | feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 1 |
374 | the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ai n't pretty . | 1 |
759 | if there 's one thing this world needs less of , it 's movies about college that are written and directed by people who could n't pass an entrance exam . | 1 |
92 | you wo n't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . | 1 |
478 | a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground | 1 |
800 | for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it 's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . | 1 |
712 | they should have called it gutterball . | 1 |
713 | corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . | 1 |
328 | an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . | 1 |
752 | like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything 's in place but something 's just a little off-kilter . | 1 |
833 | ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . | 1 |
652 | very bad . | 1 |
529 | for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . | 1 |
662 | there 's not enough here to justify the almost two hours . | 1 |
635 | or emptying rat traps . | 1 |
522 | it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | 1 |
442 | the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 1 |
155 | a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . | 1 |